The year's best drone photography

With drone photography getting more accessible, we're accomplishing two things for society: 1) taking stunning aerial photos we could never have taken before and 2) filling the skies with robots. Finally. We've been waiting for that since the Jetsons. And we were on the younger side for that show.

In celebration of, presumably, both of these things, a photography contest has appeared on the scene. Dronestagram, a drone photography app, collaborated with National Geographic to comb through thousands of entries and pick out the best drone photos of the year. We loved the winners but were also pretty impressed by some of the other photo and video entries. Here are some of our favorites:

'Mont-Saint-Michel' by Wanaiifilms, France

A drone took this photo as a "supertide" came into the island. (Photo: Dronestagram)